Salt & Fire

“Biggie,” called Sam enthusiastically onetime as we shared last year, “Did you know that the longer stew stays on fire, the more tasty it gets?”

“How do you mean?” I asked back.

“Well, in food nutrition classes, I have learnt over the years, that the salt placed in the stew, gets more evenly spread throughout the content of the pan, piercing even into the very fibres of the meat itself, if the stew is for meat! In most cases, the saltiness remains in the soup alone.”

“Where are you going with this?” I asked.

He said, “You know how the bible says we are the salt of the earth?”

“Yeah…?” I replied with a squint and a look as if I know where he was going with this…

“If indeed we are the salt, we need the fire of testing, and affliction as Christians, to be able to amplify our effect in the earth stew. Just like gold goes through the fire to get rid of impurities and purify it, the same happens when we are subject to fire!”

(Of course not literally, but by trials as already explained)

This surely made sense as it was being told me by a brother who was a food scientist. We as Christians may not enjoy the trials, but they come to prove the word God’s told us.

In the end we are made more sharper, piercing through the meat of man in the soup called earth, and we are able to reach their bodies with healing of whichever disease they bear or their souls and spirits to season them, and make them tasty enough for the eater (the maker of the earth) when He comes to ‘eat’… (Of course, figuratively as well)

Salt as well preserves food on the other hand from rotting or getting bad. Applying the fire theory, this places us in a position to permeate other souls to protect them from rotting away to their demise through their pleasures.

The Lord wills for us to go through the fire, so that we can be more effective preservatives for the thousand others who haven’t fully known Him yet!

•

James 1:2-4 Consider it wholly joyful, my brethren, whenever you are enveloped in or encounter trials of any sort or fall into various temptations. Be assured and understand that the trial and proving of your faith bring out endurance and steadfastness and patience. But let endurance and steadfastness and patience have full play and do a thorough work, so that you may be [people] perfectly and fully developed [with no defects], lacking in nothing.

John 16:33 I have told you these things, so that in Me you may have [perfect] peace and confidence. In the world you have tribulation and trials and distress and frustration; but be of good cheer [take courage; be confident, certain, undaunted]! For I have overcome the world. [I have deprived it of power to harm you and have conquered it for you.]